YOU WON'T BE BOARD TO DEATH
WITH BLINK - 182 Written by Angela Porrazzo Photos by Travis Eisenhard
Things haven’t been quite the same
As for anyone who says that Blink is on their way out, they haven’t taken the time to listen to their new album~
place where DeLonge once stood now was Matt Skiba, previously of Alkaline over the past year for Blink-182 fans. Trio. Though After twenty-three years of making music and gaining new fans all the time, many fans detested that Skiba was there to replace DeLonge, the majority still singer Tom DeLonge parted ways with the iconic pop-punk band. This for many believed in the band and loved them as much as ever. left a void in the band, though Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker swore that Blink would live on through them, it just The album gained praise, many just happy that the band is still making wasn’t the same. music. As they set out on tour, they brought along openers, DJ Spider, The Hoppus and Barker seemed to understand that and they embraced it in All-American Rejects, A Day to Remember and All Time Low. This being a way, no it wouldn’t be the same, a tactic to pump the crowd up before DeLonge has a voice that is easily recognizable to even the fans that only Blink took the stage, that worked. The energy behind a show is everything, if know “All the Small Things”. As they announced that they would be working the crowd is not pumped at a rock concert, they are not having a good on new music, the pair decided to almost reinvent Blink without letting go time. Blink-182 is pop punk, original from the nineties full of energy. But of their roots, while DeLonge went his being that the band has been around for own way pursuing other projects. twenty years, you can expect the energy to die down, the jumping is not as high Fast forward to the beginning of Summer 2016, the band had announced as it once was, the members staying in one place for a little longer than they their tour to accompany the release of used to. their new album Bored to Death. In the
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